cglaeser 0 Posted June 15, 2013 When selecting among Low, Medium, High, and Maximum in the Change Display Quality dialog box, which resources are impacted? When increasing the display quality, does this a) increase the processing at the server, b) increase the bandwidth requirements between client and server, c) increase the processing at the client? If the processing is done at the client, and assuming H.264 and not MJPEG, can this processing be done by a high-performance video card on the client? Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewireguys 3 Posted June 15, 2013 Changing the setting to maximum disables hdsm which will increase bandwidth and CPU usage on your clients. It is advised to leave it at the default setting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cglaeser 0 Posted June 15, 2013 Changing the setting to maximum disables hdsm which will increase bandwidth and CPU usage on your clients. It is advised to leave it at the default setting. Thanks for the quick response. I don't need and don't use Maximum, but sometimes I have to drop from High (default) to Medium due to lagging responsiveness. What resource(s) would I need to increase so that I can leave the quality set to High with better responsiveness? Faster processor on the server? Faster processor on the client? Increased WAN bandwidth? Given that the client is more responsive some days compared to others, I'm guessing it is the WAN. Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ssmith10pn 0 Posted June 16, 2013 Change your frame rate and leave the quality at default. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewireguys 3 Posted June 16, 2013 Changing the setting to maximum disables hdsm which will increase bandwidth and CPU usage on your clients. It is advised to leave it at the default setting. Thanks for the quick response. I don't need and don't use Maximum, but sometimes I have to drop from High (default) to Medium due to lagging responsiveness. What resource(s) would I need to increase so that I can leave the quality set to High with better responsiveness? Faster processor on the server? Faster processor on the client? Increased WAN bandwidth? Given that the client is more responsive some days compared to others, I'm guessing it is the WAN. Best, Christopher Is this over a LAN or WAN connection? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cglaeser 0 Posted June 16, 2013 Is this over a LAN or WAN connection? WAN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewireguys 3 Posted June 16, 2013 If your streaming over a WAN connection then you should definitely not have display quality at maximum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cglaeser 0 Posted June 16, 2013 If your streaming over a WAN connection then you should definitely not have display quality at maximum. Understood. I don't use maximum. I'm trying to understand what resources are affected. If the camera generates two streams, how are the four settings (low, medium, high, maximum) generated? Does the server send a subset of a stream to reduce the bandwidth? Is it possible for the server to strip off some of the high res information from a stream to reduce WAN bandwidth? Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites